Free software means that the users have the "FREEDOM" to run, edit, contribute to, and share the software...regardless of who they are or what their purpose ...

(cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21522265)

A group of people including Drew DeVault are trying to cancel RMS again, basing their claims on ancient misinterpreted quotes. Stallman may be controversial, but these activists are just acid for the entire Free Software movement.

  • fl42v@lemmy.ml
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    29 days ago

    Note: unfinished, will append later when I have time to read the report and related stallman’s blogposts fully, and, possibly, a few times to see what I’ve missed

    Questionable. “Why bring X up now” implies there’s somehow a right time for that or smth like the statute of limitations, which there aren’t, as far as I’m aware.

    On the other hand, some points of the report are just as questionable:

    • Normalization: admitted those statements were (assumed “partiality”, due to his definition of children being different from a generally accepted one; no attempt made to clarify with the man himself) retracted in 2019, then proceeds to include statements from 2018 using exactly the word “child”. Not that I don’t see a problem with how its worded by RMS [note to self: check if it’s mentioned in said blogpost]: being psychologically detrimental is, IMO, merely the consequence of adults being able to easily manipulate a minor into doing something they don’t feel good about.